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I'm guilty of this same thing. I'm just not a fan of redecos. I do, however, appreciate the characters and want a representation of each. I have Classics Screamer (sans null-rays sadly, since I got him as part of a lot), 07 Voyager Thundercracker, who I quite like, and I would love for my Skywarp to use the FoC mold...but they have to make it first!

I'm fine with redecos, as long as they're different characters. Not "Elite Guard Bumblebee," "Shadow Strike Bumblebee," "Nightwatch Optimus Prime," "Battle-Ready Megatron," "Buy-Our-Toys Derpface; Crystal Edition."

The only time I'll accept redecos of the same character is if it's in the show. Otherwise, new character or die.

PrymeStriker wrote:I'm fine with redecos, as long as they're different characters. Not "Elite Guard Bumblebee," "Shadow Strike Bumblebee," "Nightwatch Optimus Prime," "Battle-Ready Megatron," "Buy-Our-Toys Derpface; Crystal Edition."

The only time I'll accept redecos of the same character is if it's in the show. Otherwise, new character or die.

Well yeah, I just mean for my collection. Now, there have been a handful of really nifty redecos lately, like Prime Dead End and GDO Brawl (I love the Breacher mold), which really don't look like the original versions.

RAcast wrote:

PrymeStriker wrote:I'm fine with redecos, as long as they're different characters. Not "Elite Guard Bumblebee," "Shadow Strike Bumblebee," "Nightwatch Optimus Prime," "Battle-Ready Megatron," "Buy-Our-Toys Derpface; Crystal Edition."

The only time I'll accept redecos of the same character is if it's in the show. Otherwise, new character or die.

Well yeah, I just mean for my collection. Now, there have been a handful of really nifty redecos lately, like Prime Dead End and GDO Brawl (I love the Breacher mold), which really don't look like the original versions.

Those aren't just redecos, they're retools.

PrymeStriker wrote:

RAcast wrote:

PrymeStriker wrote:I'm fine with redecos, as long as they're different characters. Not "Elite Guard Bumblebee," "Shadow Strike Bumblebee," "Nightwatch Optimus Prime," "Battle-Ready Megatron," "Buy-Our-Toys Derpface; Crystal Edition."

The only time I'll accept redecos of the same character is if it's in the show. Otherwise, new character or die.

Well yeah, I just mean for my collection. Now, there have been a handful of really nifty redecos lately, like Prime Dead End and GDO Brawl (I love the Breacher mold), which really don't look like the original versions.

Those aren't just redecos, they're retools.

PRID Megatron, Darkness Megatron, Darkest megatron? XD It seems like Darkest Megatron has Megs with Solus Prime's arm, just like in the latest episode where he used it to wield the Forge. The forge hammer would appear to be the Darkest Megatron Micron. So, do all 3 megatron count?

gavinfuzzy wrote:

PrymeStriker wrote:

RAcast wrote:

PrymeStriker wrote:I'm fine with redecos, as long as they're different characters. Not "Elite Guard Bumblebee," "Shadow Strike Bumblebee," "Nightwatch Optimus Prime," "Battle-Ready Megatron," "Buy-Our-Toys Derpface; Crystal Edition."

The only time I'll accept redecos of the same character is if it's in the show. Otherwise, new character or die.

Well yeah, I just mean for my collection. Now, there have been a handful of really nifty redecos lately, like Prime Dead End and GDO Brawl (I love the Breacher mold), which really don't look like the original versions.

Those aren't just redecos, they're retools.

PRID Megatron, Darkness Megatron, Darkest megatron? XD It seems like Darkest Megatron has Megs with Solus Prime's arm, just like in the latest episode where he used it to wield the Forge. The forge hammer would appear to be the Darkest Megatron Micron. So, do all 3 megatron count?

First of all, we don't know what Prime arm Megatron has. Solus Prime isn't the only Prime that can hold the Forge. For example, the Star Saber is forged by Solus Prime, yet Optimus was able to wield it.

Second of all, who is Darkest Megatron?

kwanzaabot wrote:

Valandar wrote:If you don't want 3 near-identical figures (save for paint job), then why collect the Seekers at all?

It's not like they've only used the one mold ever since 1984. Every new toyline does something different with them.

Let's take Thundercracker for example. Some versions of him use a really ugly shade of blue. So, the Starscream for that particular series might look better.

Another series might make Starscream mostly grey, and look kind of boring with only minimal red highlights. The Thundercracker for that one might look nicer.

So, you want a set of Seekers, but not necessarily uniform Seekers? Just the best looking of each? I tried that before, being a huge Seeker fan, and I ultimately ended up just getting entire sets from each line that offered more than one of the characters.
I would also recommend the Classics Seekers, as that way you can end up with all six of them in a uniform style. Aside from that, it seems to me the size differences would make it tough to mix and match. I don't get frazzled over scale, but for instance I really like the Supreme Starscream from Cybertron, but except for the MPs no other Seekers come close to that size, so to me it would look real awkward. All I can really think of it Armada, where SS and TC are the same but at least Skywarp and Ramjet look different, yet identical to each other. But then, missing a Thrust and Dirge, so.

PrymeStriker wrote:

gavinfuzzy wrote:

PrymeStriker wrote:

RAcast wrote:

PrymeStriker wrote:I'm fine with redecos, as long as they're different characters. Not "Elite Guard Bumblebee," "Shadow Strike Bumblebee," "Nightwatch Optimus Prime," "Battle-Ready Megatron," "Buy-Our-Toys Derpface; Crystal Edition."

The only time I'll accept redecos of the same character is if it's in the show. Otherwise, new character or die.

Well yeah, I just mean for my collection. Now, there have been a handful of really nifty redecos lately, like Prime Dead End and GDO Brawl (I love the Breacher mold), which really don't look like the original versions.

Those aren't just redecos, they're retools.

PRID Megatron, Darkness Megatron, Darkest megatron? XD It seems like Darkest Megatron has Megs with Solus Prime's arm, just like in the latest episode where he used it to wield the Forge. The forge hammer would appear to be the Darkest Megatron Micron. So, do all 3 megatron count?

First of all, we don't know what Prime arm Megatron has. Solus Prime isn't the only Prime that can hold the Forge. For example, the Star Saber is forged by Solus Prime, yet Optimus was able to wield it.

Second of all, who is Darkest Megatron?

A recently announced Megatron figure. Beyond that I don't believe we know anything. Also, GDO Brawl is a straight redeco, no retooling. I thought it was a retool for the longest time until I took a good look at Breacher's (awesome) head sculpt and realized it was the same.

RAcast wrote:

PrymeStriker wrote:

gavinfuzzy wrote:

PrymeStriker wrote:

RAcast wrote:

PrymeStriker wrote:I'm fine with redecos, as long as they're different characters. Not "Elite Guard Bumblebee," "Shadow Strike Bumblebee," "Nightwatch Optimus Prime," "Battle-Ready Megatron," "Buy-Our-Toys Derpface; Crystal Edition."

The only time I'll accept redecos of the same character is if it's in the show. Otherwise, new character or die.

Well yeah, I just mean for my collection. Now, there have been a handful of really nifty redecos lately, like Prime Dead End and GDO Brawl (I love the Breacher mold), which really don't look like the original versions.

Those aren't just redecos, they're retools.

PRID Megatron, Darkness Megatron, Darkest megatron? XD It seems like Darkest Megatron has Megs with Solus Prime's arm, just like in the latest episode where he used it to wield the Forge. The forge hammer would appear to be the Darkest Megatron Micron. So, do all 3 megatron count?

First of all, we don't know what Prime arm Megatron has. Solus Prime isn't the only Prime that can hold the Forge. For example, the Star Saber is forged by Solus Prime, yet Optimus was able to wield it.

Second of all, who is Darkest Megatron?

A recently announced Megatron figure. Beyond that I don't believe we know anything.

So, how would we know what he looks like? How would we know he has the Forge of Solus Prime and the Prime arm if we haven't seen him?

PrymeStriker wrote:I'm fine with redecos, as long as they're different characters. Not "Elite Guard Bumblebee," "Shadow Strike Bumblebee," "Nightwatch Optimus Prime," "Battle-Ready Megatron," "Buy-Our-Toys Derpface; Crystal Edition."

The only time I'll accept redecos of the same character is if it's in the show. Otherwise, new character or die.

Sorry for multi-posting, but I'm more or less with you on this. I love redecos and repaints, as I can generally make them into my own character rather than just accept the notion that it's sneaky Bumblebee or night time Optimus Prime, but I hate it when repaints simply get an adjective added to the front of their names. Like, what's actually the difference between (for example) Bulkhead and Battle Tactics Bulkhead? Wouldn't it be like, a different way which Bulkhead was employed by the military? If you're a cashier and you get promoted to assistant manager, you don't turn a different color.
I never really cared until all the endless movie repaints took up this approach. I'll accept all the red BB repaints as Cliffjumpers, but I won't accept a red BB repaint as "Fire Resistant Bumblebee" or whatever. That's just dumb.